Leonid Slutsky faced the media once more today amid speculation that it could be his last weekend in charge of Hull City should he fail to secure three points.

The Tigers, who currently sit in the bottom five of the Championship, take on Bristol City on Saturday looking to end their run of five games without a win.

Here's everything he had to say.

What’s the club’s injury situation going into the game against Bristol City?

Nothing new, only the situation with James Weir. He has had an operation on his knee and he was injured in the under-23s last match and he was a serious problem with his meniscus. Maybe he will miss three, four, five months.

Now he is here after coming back from the operation, of course everyone supports him and each injury for a player is a serious test, for character and for patience.

Seb Larsson is back in the fold, how will he be used?

He had two days off because he played in national team and he didn’t have a day off and I think it is important days for each player, especially one who has played a lot of matches.

Will you make changes tomorrow?

We have one or two changes, maybe we change with formation because it does not just depend of the player, sometimes you have to change because of the opponent’s team and tomorrow we will be in our normal formation.

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Where do you need to improve?

We need a win of course, everybody understands the situation and like quality of the game in the last two matches was normal quality, not all the match which is difficult. But the target for tomorrow will be to start very active and very aggressive.

Toral and Kingsley, how are they progressing?

How would you describe the week you’ve just had?

Each match is very important for me, the last five matches we didn’t win and of course each home match is serious chance to change everything. There is serious pressure but my target is to change the direction of pressure from the players and for me this situation is no problem.

Of course each home match is very important and now with a little bit of stability in the game, but each match is unpredictable. Bristol City are a good team, they are in fifth position and it will be very difficult.

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Hull City manager Leonid Slutsky during the Championship match at The Den

Did you have a meeting with the owners this week?

No. We have a very good relationship and we are always speaking about the situation. We had some meetings this week with our chief scout and I think if we need extra information we will have a meeting but I think now everyone understands we need to win next match

What do you think of the reports about your job?

For me this is nothing because it is really very important in the league, we are in 20 position in the league and each match is a question of closer to a relegation battle or closer to the middle of the table and for me it is a very important match for position in the table. Risk for me? This is not serious pressure, I spoke a lot about the first guy who asks questions of myself is me.

What has been the message from the owners this week?

I don’t have a message from the owner because I don’t need. We spoke a lot about my situation in the club and I think if something changes he would call me and we have conversation.

But now I am working inside without pressure.

Is it an important game for you personally?

Not only for me but after some matches without a win, each next match is more important than before. If you don’t win one the second match is important but not a huge level. Two matches more important and now five matches. We have a serious chance to win and very difficult life for each player or coach if you don’t have a win in a long time and of course everybody will try and change the situation tomorrow.

Is the speculation fair?

For me is nothing really, I don’t feel a pressing or serious situation. I am working and I try and be maximum effective on the football pitch or training with players but it is not a big risk for me. I worked in CSKA, the biggest club in Russia, for seven years. I coached the national team and pressure was on another level.

It is not difficult but I am thinking about the problem inside and how to change something and to get more stability in the game.

Do you expect to be the head coach on Monday morning?

I don’t know, everything is possible if you can’t win in five matches but I don’t think about it, I will think about it if we will have the situation, what reason do I think about future if I don’t know?

How well do you think you are playing?

It is normal because I think we have stability level, we understand how we will play, our strengths, our weaknesses. Of course it will be a difficult match again because we don’t have a special advantage, we don’t have a better team or physical condition, we don’t have that extra plus against our opponents. But we can try and use our quality and strengths.

What do you know about Bristol City?

They are a good team, they use some formations sometimes play a 4-4-2 or a 4-1-4-1 and a lot of the players are very versatile and they get good results in away matches. But not an extra special team, we will have a very difficult match but it will be a match for three results, we can win, we can lose or we can draw.

How has it felt for you at the KCOM?

A home win is more important because each team at home is more aggressive and our supporters are every important to us and we want to bring happiness to our supporters. Of course a home match is always more important than an away match.